Some of our favorite things, that have made our season BRIGHT...
We LOVE all of the neighbor treats and gifts. We have the BEST neighborhood friends EVER!! (even though my diet has gone down the drain with all of the thousands of plates of goodies. YUM!! Thank you ALL!)
I just had to take a picture of this particular plate. Could these cookies get any cuter???
My hubby and I did the 12 days of Christmas for each other. We have done this in years past with dollar gifts. This year was a little different for us. The rules were to not buy anything. We JUST could write a simple note of past memories of and for each other. We had a BLAST reading each others memories from over the past 10 1/2 years. The funny thing was, our minds must think alike. We did a lot of the same ones. SUPER FUN!!!
Of course we made our yearly ginger bread houses. The boys loved to lick all of the frosting and put all of the candy on our simple but most AMAZING house. Haa Haa! Always a fun tradition.
We have been to a few super fun parties..but never got pictures. Sheesh....what is up with that? I know. We did take some at our party though.This year with Aaron being in the Elders Quorum Presidency. We thought it would be fun to have a little UGLY Christmas Sweater/turtle neck party with the presidency and wives. NO kids invited!! **What a splendid idea!!* We then figured with no kids coming we could invite some of our close neighbors that live on our street and around us too! What a fun time! Wish we had a big enough home to invite you all!! Next time for sure. Such a BLAST!!!
Who won the UGLY sweater contest??? Drum roll please....
3rd Place........... Landon Wiley! (pretty darn ugly!)
2nd Place...................Chris Holton! (Freakin' UGLY! and even uglier the dickey collar and parted hair!! Ha ha!)
Had to get a closer look at the parted hair, but heck it doesn't even do justice. What a HOOT! LOVE LOVE LOVE this guy! Haa haa haa SOOOOO FUNNY!
And LAST but not LEAST! The WINNER of the evening....SEXY REXY!!!(He wore the teeniest, tiniest, and shortest sweater EVER....courtesy of his mother in law! haa haa.) Wish I could say it was UGLY, but really it was so CUTE on him! Don't you think??
The WINNERS! They all got presents and official awards. (Wish we had lots more awards, cuz..sheesh...there was some pretty UGLY sweaters there. Dang UG-LY!)
We ate lots of appetizers. YUM! Then played some Christmas relays and a pound/white elephant exchange game. The twist was the gift had to be a pound. Made it a little more tricky. There was a leeway of a couple ounces each way. If their gift was too high or too low, they would have to sing a song...do a dance, or recite a Christmas sonnet. I loved that everyone really got into this part! Super funny. If their gift was a pound, they got a treat. Then we just played the white elephant game after. I still can't stop laughing about some of the gifts. Especially this one.....This was the best white elephant EVER by Matt Barney! Look closely at the picture. He taped his face all funny and in distorted ways. I was the lucky winner of it too. Come on over, it is on display FOREVER!! It brings me happiness and joy! Thanks Matt!!!
Some action pictures around the room.
Now that Aaron is on a Hockey league, he is a little obsessed with ice skating. For FHE he wanted to set up a ice skating night at the rink! What a great time we had! We pushed the kids around in the strollers and went round and round and round. We asked Tate if he would want to skate and he said YES! Holy heck, that kid is GOOD! He was a little slow getting started, but then got really good. Aaron is super excited to now have an ice skating buddy.
What a cutie! Just getting started.
Lovely friends that joined.
A born PRO! He didn't want help at all...and just kept going and enjoyed himself so much. He talks about it often. Love it!
The kids watching out the window at the Zamboni. (oh and my hottie too!!)
Some of the lovely peeps that joined us!
After words we all went and out to eat. Such great and fun times. Join us next time all!More updates to come soon.........
3 comments:
love it all! doing the 12 days of christmas is such a fun idea, maybe we will have to steal it :-) keep up that awesome fun!!!
Yep. You guys totally rock. You can pretty much make ANYTHING FUN if you guys are there. Love all the great ideas and especially that party you threw! Stelllllllar sweetie! And the gingerbread houses....yep, I wanna eat it.right now.:) Can't wait to play again! Love all yer alls faces!! :)
hahahahaha!! You are so amazing and I loved all the pictures! I will need to steel a few. You guys are great and I love hanging out! Many laughs!!
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